Will Rogers Quotes

I'm fully aware of the tricks that are often played in elections here in South Carolina.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

The abuse of buying and selling votes crept in and money began to play an important part in determining elections.

The elections are rigged. It's a totally rigged system. The only way we can lose, in my opinion.

When you have elections in which 90% or 95% or 99% of those elected come from one party, then I think there is some fraudulent act.

I will devote none of my time to developing laws to increase my own patronage and multiply canvassers [electors] in my favor.

“Vote early and vote often” is the Politishun’s golden rule.

No election in the United States is wholly free from human or machine error.

Bad government is made in the poling places of this country.

Democracy exists in Mexico 354 days of the year. It is only missing on Election Day.

Can you imagine on-line voting. Even when your body has to show up, they manage to cheat somehow.

“Vote early and vote often,” the advice openly displayed on the election banners in one of our northern cities.

The evidence in hand and accessible will show beyond peradventure that in many parts of the State corrupt and violent influences were brought to bear upon the registrars of voters, thus materially affecting the character of the voting or poll lists; upon the inspectors of election, prejudicially and unfairly thereby changing the number of votes cast; and, finally, threats and violence were practiced directly upon the masses of voters in such measures and strength as to produce grave apprehensions for their personal safety and as to deter them from the exercise of their political franchises.

Many American campaigns have been distinguished by dirty tactics, but I can think of none in which willful fraud has been so brazenly practiced.

With money we will get partisans, with partisans votes, and with votes money, is the maxim of our political pilferers.

[Commenting on Watergate:] Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election.

I read 'How to Rig an Election.' Well, I read parts of it. I wouldn't necessarily quote me as saying I read the whole thing.

We live in a time when fictitious election results elect a fictitious president. We live in a time where we have a man sending us to war for fictitious reasons.

Frankly, what we need to be looking at is whether this election was rigged by Donald Trump and his buddy Vladimir Putin.

From 1994 to 1996, I turned over every rock in Little Rock, looking for a silver bullet that would take down the Clintons in time for the 1996 election.

Facts have come to light that indicate that a pivotal, close election was likely changed through voter fraud on Nov. 8, 2016: New Hampshire's U.S. Senate Seat, and perhaps also New Hampshire's four electoral college votes in the presidential election.

Our elections are too important to risk even the appearance of impropriety.

Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

Voter fraud happens on both sides of the aisle. And if nothing else, I'm glad Democrats are acknowledging that it exists.

Any U.S. attorney's office would fall over itself to investigate, for example, a state governor who, while running for reelection against a former mayor, so much as hinted to the mayor's successor that, say, highway funds would be restricted unless the current mayor were to announce an inquiry into her predecessor's alleged corruption.